Australian fires
- Subject: Australian fires
- From: R* S*
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 06:19:56 -0800
To the list members in Australia -
We read about the great fires now occurring in the area near Sydney, and
I wonder what effect the fire has upon native vegetation. Are eucalypt
forests adapted to fire? Does fire in Australia produce a subsequent
mass flowering of annuals, or spurts of new growth in shrubs and trees?
Here in northern California, we had a large fire about 10 years ago that
went through large eucalyptus groves (I am not sure of the species, but
were predominantly a single species of gum). A great number of the
large trees were destroyed, but resprouted from the base about a year
later.
